Jacqueline Crooks

1979, banlieue industrielle de Londres. La jeune Yamaye vit seule avec son père dans une cité-dortoir et travaille de nuit à l'usine. Le week-end, direction la Crypte, le club underground où elle oublie son quotidien morose. Musique dub et reggae... Lire la suite

A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only realising
how odd she is when it comes to parents’ evening . . . The values of a small farming village are challenged by talk of a well-heeled... Lire la suite

The stories in this collection move around in time and place, but linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage. From Roaring River in rural Jamaica in 1908 where the descendants of African... Lire la suite

**A spellbinding portrait of 90s London and three lives brought together by chance, from the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush *Guardian book to read 2026*** London in the 90s. After years in a hostel for young homeless women, Jaycee... Lire la suite